IBM’s supercomputer named Watson became a national phenomenon when it won Jeopardy by beating its human competitors by huge margins. At the time most people only thought of Watson’s Cognitive System as a novelty but IBM had big plans for their marvel of a computer system. Last week Big Blue announced that Watson was heading to the cloud and by that we don’t mean the project is dead and gone. Watson will now be offering its unique skills as a cloud-based service. Users will be able to consult the super computer on many different topics including medicine and business.
New York based John Gordon, a Watson Solutions Marketing Manager for IBM, explained the supercomputer abilities further by stating that, “Watson is going to be an adviser and an assistant to all kinds of professional decision-makers, starting in healthcare and then moving beyond. We’re already looking at a role for Watson in financial services and in other applications.” All this is possible thanks to Watson’s 90 servers and 16,000 gigabytes of RAM. These run the smart learning software which deals with natural-language questions that users will ask making it a very powerful tool.
A recent report by ‘New Scientist’ published last month showed some very positive results after Watson was used to peruse cancer research papers and clinical practice guidelines to help Oncologists as an assistant in diagnosing patients.
IBM is definitely on top of its game and sees the vast potential for Watson in the medical field after the trials with doctors. The researchers at IBM are now working furiously to make Watson’s learning capabilities better so that doctors have more options. The company is also pushing to have Watson available to doctors and clinicians everywhere.
Gordon explains, “We want broad exposure for Watson. We want physicians all over the planet to be able to use it. And we are now looking at ways of delivering Watson as a service to make sure that it is something that is very accessible and which doesn’t require a significant level of technology investment by the user.” He goes on to also give a peak at the future of Watson and IBM’s plan by saying, “We hope to expand Watson’s scope by delivering it as a cloud-based service. We have a number of other application areas under consideration.”
Source: Gizmodo
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